09. The Undying Bug Player! The Black Skull Guild!
*Ktang!*
It was the sound of two blade clashing as the scene transferred into the fight between Vincent Ho and an unknown player that shined red.
They have been exchanging blows for almost an entire evening, Vincent doesn't want to use the mobs as he feels that the player infront of him is not simple as he could sense the danger.
He peeked into his foe Information panel.
[Name: Joshua Gray]
[Species: Human]
[HP: -52, 927(↓)/20]
[Trait: Player, Bug]
[Talent: True Immortality (EX), Poisonous Blade (Blue)]
[Skills: Poison Orb, Poison Scatter, Poison Bullet, Poison Coating]
[Description: a player that died from unknown sources and was transmigrated, a buggy red player with true immortality, a bug born from the distortion of reality caused by Herobrine.]
[Affiliation: None (Neutal Camp)]
[…]
'Luckily I already tamed Spiders and gain Poison Immunity, if I didn't then this fight will be quite bothersome…' He muttered as he stared at the incoming poison bullet.
"Hah! I gotchu motherfucker!-" Joshua shouted as his eyes was filled with vigor.
Vincent appeared behind him and muttered "Not really, your poison is useless against me and our physical capabilities are like heaven and earth." He then swiftly beheaded Joshua.
But to his surprise, Joshua's headless body keep on fighting as his fallen head was watching the fight with a huge smile on the face.
Vincent was slightly surprised but quickly regained his composure as his grin started to widen, he revealed the information of his enemy EX-rank talent.
[True Immortality (EX): When your HP reaches 0 you won't die, instead the damage you receive will continue to decrease your HP below 0 into the negatives. You will automatically 'respawned' if you sustained extremely heavy damage and dropped one random item. The respawn location is at the original spawn point but if you have used a Bed or Respawn Anchor and destroyed it, your spawn point will be random.]
His grin just widen as his empty white eyes stared menacingly at the red bug player.
'Why do I suddenly felt chill run down my spine?' Joshua suddenly shivered.
…
He pounce at Joshua and then pinning him down with his body as he activates his skill as the electricity was flowing through his body.
[Enhanced Self-Detonation: Explode yourself using your HP causing heavy damage and destroying most block.]
"Witch! Zombies! Spiders! Everyone! Run away from here! I don't know how far the radius is but I don't want any of you get caught in the explosion!" He shouted at his subordinates who then quickly leaved using the slimes.
Joshua Gray smiled and the muttered "Crazy bastard, I didn't expect you to use such powerful moves on me… but I'm honoured! I bet you already know about my talent, so shall we meet again someday Herobrine, whether as friends or foe!"
*Boom*
A huge light sphere engulfed the entire island that they were on.
The slimes and mobs were on the water floating as the witch give each of them water breathing potion in case any of them fall into the ocean.
…
After the light was gone, there was Herobrine floating in the middle of the water and the place of a former island, he was wide awake as the slimes approached him.
He them jumped into the slimes and command them to get to the ground.
While everyone was sitting around the campfire, Vincent was standing in the dark as he stared at the item he got.
On his hand was a strange heart-like object that was beating, the item shined in bright red.
He sighed befoee putting it away in the Inventory and now seei
g the system notification.
[Taming Information]
[Taming Species: Bug Player (Joshua Gray)]
[Taming Requirement: Recruit the Red Bug Player into joining the Monster Faction under your rule - 0/1]
[…]
"I totally didn't expect this thing to exist" He muttered to himself before joining the mobs around the campfire as the moon was rising to the sky.
***
It was already the 4th nights in the game but the player hasn't advance further than Stone age other than some big guilds who are obviously not going to share valueable information to decrease competition.
Among the one that have already advance to the Iron age and starting to be able to fight against mobs are the Guilds that was called Top 10 Strongest Guilds in the community.
From the lowest guild-like organization to the top is; The Nobody, The Loremaster, The Heavenly Dragon, The Farmer Union, The Wealthy Merchants, The Omega, The Zhang Clan, The Liberation Legion, The Sniper Gathering and The Mad Clown.
The Nobody consists of only average to below average talent awakener, this guild was created by a group of four strangers that have below average talent and then in just four days the guilds growth have been astronomical thanks to the ever increasing number of players which mean more members.
The Loremaster is already a famous group outside of the game community, an army of soldier that was fueled by their curiosity in the story (lore) of everything and made their own connection to predict how the story actually happen or tried to know what the writer have in stores for them, one the ways to do these thing is via fan theories.
The Heavenly Dragon was a guild that migrated from another game that was discontinued called 'Spirit Cultivation: Godly Descent' which was only published in China, so obviously the game will only be filled with chinese players, even though they were arrogant, their skills and talents could back them up.
The Farmer Union is just a group of people that join hands together to enjoy their hobby of agriculture, the group of people with the biggest food sources and monopoly while having the connections to the higher ranking guilds and have a trade with the number one guild.
The Wealthy Merchants are a group of players that have a common passion; money, they are the people that is willing to do almost anything for money, these people are the one you search for to create a contract due to their trustworthy image that they managed to built among the community.
The Omega are one of the most combat oriented group so far, they are made up of purely with people that had awakened an above average talents, they have advance their equipment to the Iron age, they have yet to find a clue for the next advancement but in terms of combat they're one of the scariest enemy.
The Zhang Clan are a real clan from the outside world, the most famou Zhang Company was present in the game, most of its official members are an underling from the Zhang family or mercenary they hired.
The Liberation Legion are a group of people that doesn't want the large guild monopolizing everything, they are one of the few guilds that shared their knowledge and wisdom to the average player to help them advance.
The Sniper Gathering are a gathering of people that awakened ranged-attack talents, most of the member came from the various fps, rhythm and rougelike games, they only used ranged weapon (aka the bow they got from Skeletons) and forbid all members to even wield melee weapons because that's their gimmick.
The Mad Clown are a guild made up purely by 12 people, all the members are a Beta-tester that have known each other and became friends, most of them have great combat skills and great talents, they have extensive knowledge in the game world that wasn't known to others, they have a trade with the Farmer Union.
But among all of the Top 10, there's one guild that could stand up to them even though they weren't in the rankings, it was the Black Skull Guild, a branch guild of the Abyss Guild that have come from another game, they are made up by a small amounts of dark guilds, they mostly acquired their gear via stealing from other players.
They have an iconic set of cosmetics that was present in all of their members; a black robe, white skull mask with red pupils in its eye sockets, black and gray military uniform and the amount of badge on their chest indicate their authority within the guilds.
…
On the cliff there was a figure standing tall staring at the enclosed village are where many players gathered to live.
Behind the figure is the countless members of the Black Skull Guild with only one star badge on their chest, the figure turned his body and revealed a three star badge on his chest.
He was the leader to their mission.
"Prepare yourself, we must not failed this mission… Charge!" He and the hordes of soldiers went and marched into the village.
***
Inside a wooden box in the middle of mesa biome with farms and livestock surrounding it.
There was Connor cooking a few meal to satisfy his desire.
"Delicious!" He said satisfied after eating.
***
Inside a cave there was Jackson who was turned into a Zombie.
"Fuck… now what should I do?" He muttered panicking.
He was now a Zombie hence he couldn't get with any players without getting killed, he doesn't want that.
He opened his own status.
[Name: Jackson Granton (Klorofilw56)]
[Species: Zombie]
[HP: 20/20]
[Trait/s: Player, Monster, Undead]
[Talent/s: Survival (Gold), Mutant (Green)]
[Skill/s: Zombification, Night Vision, Armor (+2)]
[Affiliation: None (Neutral Camp)]
[…]
"Oh? Its already nighttime, well, let's just try to survive first…" He muttered to himself before leaving the cave.
***
[Monster Faction Kill Points: 203 pts]
[Kill Points: 1,706 pts]
"The Kill Points for the Monster Faction hasn't increased in the last two weeks, I bet the players are starting to get stronger too… I couldn't just stay still I need to tame more monsters and get stronger faster than ever!" Vincent muttered as he witnessed the corpses of the player he had killed has risen from the dead.
[Name: Lake Smith (Jingletwink70)]
[Species: Zombie]
[HP: 10/10]
[Trait/s: Player, Bug, Undead]
[Talent/s: Berserker (Gold)]
[Skill/s: Regeneration, Bone Weapon, Zombification, Night Vision, Armor (+2)]
[Affiliation: Monster Faction]
[…]
"So I can turn a corpse of players into controllable zombies, neat." He said grinning widely.